Easy Cardboard Robot + Creative Upgrades: remote control, solar power, and more!
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Description
This robot won first prize in the Instructables STEM Challenge contest! It's a modular DIY robot made from cardboard and paper circuits using conductive tape. Kids start by building the basic robot and upgrade it step by step with a remote control, solar power, a robot body, and light-up antennas. Kids will learn about robotics, simple electronics, motors, electrical switches, solar power, mechanics, gears, transmissions, and much more! They can even turn it into a programmable robot using my Smartphone Robot resource and start coding it in many different ways. Perfect for classrooms, makerspaces, and libraries, this STEM and STEAM activity requires no tools!
This project is great fun for all ages, starting from 9 years old and up. It's also great for parent-child workshops!
You can find all the instructions you need and more information to help you decide if this DIY project is right for you on my website https://www.voltpaperscissors.com/easyrobot
These are the files included in the download:
- A shopping guide for the Easy Robot project
- The circuit template for the basic robot
- Circuit templates for all the upgrades: Remote control, solar power, robot body and light-up antennas
- Robot body color variations
- My Easy Circuit template for experimenting
About my shopping guide:
I recommend ordering the same parts I use. Not every motor, LED, or transistor will work with button cells, and there is a lot of crappy conductive tape out there! My shopping guide contains DigiKey and Adafruit links because these two shops have everything available in any quantity. In my opinion, Amazon is not a good choice for electronics.
Tip: The Smartphone Robot resource contains everything from this product plus more! Be sure to check it out.
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